Explanation of the Phrasal Verb usage, categories and examples.

1. PHRASAL VERBS

2. DON’T GET CONFUSED!
The main characteristic of a phrasal verb is that the
combination of words changes the meaning of the verb.
“look out” “look out”
phrasal verb non-phrasal verb
To look from inside to the
To be careful.
outside.
“Look out! You should be “We looked out of the
more careful. You window to see if it was
almost run into a door.” raining.”

3. PHRASAL VERBS

4. INTRANSITIVE PHRASAL VERBS
break up
• Jen and Vince broke up.
eat out
• Tonight I feel like .
pass away
• Our grandfather passed away last year.

5. TRANSITIVE PHRASAL VERBS
• talk SO into
• stand up for
ST
• make up for
• ask SO out
Non- • wait on
• cheer SO up
Separable • occur to
• cut SO off separable • run away from
• get ST on
• disagree with
• keep ST/SO
• hear from
around
• keep up with
• use ST up
• etc.
• etc.
Verb + ST / SO + Prep/Adverb Verb and Prep/Adverb + ST / SO

6. SPECIAL CASES
I
in
in the phone the phone
book. book.

7. WHAT HAPPENS IF THE OBJECT IS A
PRONOUN?
When the object is replaced by a pronoun things change a bit in separable phrasal
verbs that can be separated and not.
I haven’t seen my friend turns into
I haven’t seen him.
“him” is a pronoun that replacesI haven’t
seen “my friend”.
When this happens, the pronoun for the object always goes between the verb
and the preposition:
I made up a story / I made a story up
I made it up but never I made up it